[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix to support file:///x:/path

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:48:58AM +0100, Alban Bedel wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:00:15 -0500
> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:53:24PM +0900, KO Myung-Hun wrote:
> > > Hi/2.
> > > 
> > > Currently, MPlayer supports file://path style. But on Windows and
> > > OS/2, local path is expressed by 'file:///x:/path'. That is, '/' is
> > > prefixed to normal path. So we need to remove '/' before 'x:/path'.
> > 
> > To my knowledge, file://foo is always a relative (non-/-initial) path,
> > i.e. file://foo means ./foo while file:///foo means /foo, at least in
> > standard urls. I think MPlayer is just wrong here. Special-casing
> > windows drive letter nastiness is not the right fix, at least..
> 
> MPlayer work as you describe, it's not wrong :) Now how the path (ie.
> everything after file://) is to be interpreted is obviously OS
> dependend. So such "path fix" are acceptable imho but they must be under
> #ifdef.

Oh.. I see. Windows uses 3 slashes even with a leading drive letter.
How nasty...it should use only 2 there to be self-consistent.

Rich